My primary goal was sponsorship. If not financially, then maybe via hardware for a future SCALE?

Cisco at some point sold Linksys to Belkin (or something like that). As you mentioned their gear tends to be linux based. And at some point they were trying to market to Linux users via the WRT-54GL line. Similar story with Dlink but as you mentioned sponsorship was always tight there.

Also I've generally been surprised we never see attendees and speakers from these companies given how much Linux and OSS they use. Even just getting their lawyers to attend the OSS legal training would be great.

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Dennis Rex dennis@socallinuxexpo.org wrote:

I have some with two degrees of separation or so, Ilan. Are we looking for them to sponsor a particular event? Most all that stuff is heavily based on Linux so there's a straight line connection. D-Link is also in So Cal and I have a few friends there. They are notoriously tight on event budgets, though

On Feb 17, 2018 12:03 PM, "Ilan Rabinovitch" ilan@linuxfests.org wrote:

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Hi Folks,

Do we know anyone at Linksys / Belkin? They're based in Santa Monica and Irvine. Would be interested in seeingif we can get them involved in SCALE some how.

Thanks, Ilan

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Thanks for the info David. Before we say no to things, lets see what contacts folks have and whats possible. All of these companies sell various lines of devices that may be viable for other parts of SCALE.

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 7:43 PM, David Lang david@lang.hm wrote:

I've been looking at the linksys WRT1900/1200/3200 devices over the last couple of years with an eye on using them. Unfortunantly they have interpreted the FCC concerns about people hacking devices to increase their output (and cause interference) as a mandate to make it impossible to adjust the output power at all, so you can't even decrease their output power.This means that they are not suitable for use at Scale (they are pretty nice devices otherwise, except that they have announced them as opensource and then not released the source for a year plus after the devices started shipping)

David Lang

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